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No Government Veto Over Future Top-Level Domain Names

By CircleID Reporter
  • February 28, 2011, 8:41 pm PST
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Declan McCullagh reporting in CNET News: “The Obama administration has failed in its bid to allow it and other governments to veto future top-level domain names, a proposal before ICANN that raised questions about balancing national sovereignty with the venerable Internet tradition of free expression. A group of nations rejected (PDF) that part of the U.S. proposal last week, concluding instead that governments can offer nonbinding ‘advice’ about controversial suffixes such as .gay but will not receive actual veto power.”

Related Links:
No support for U.S. proposal for domain name veto CNET News, Feb.28.2011
Obama administration joins critics of U.S. nonprofit that oversees Internet The Washington Post, Feb.28.2011

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